Underwriter

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• ASBAThe mandatory payment mechanism for public and rights issues, in which your bank blocks the application money in your own account and debits it only if you actually get an allotment.
• Merchant bankerA SEBI-registered body corporate engaged in the business of issue management — arranging the selling, buying or subscribing of securities, or acting as manager, consultant or adviser in relation to an issue.
• Primary marketThe market where an issuer sells securities to investors for the first time and receives the money itself — the "new issue market", as against the secondary market where investors trade among themselves.
• Qualified Institutions PlacementA fast route by which an already-listed company places eligible securities privately with Qualified Institutional Buyers, without the prospectus and timetable of a public issue.
• Red Herring ProspectusThe offer document used in a book-built public issue, containing every disclosure a prospectus carries except the final price or number of shares, filed with the Registrar before the issue opens.
• Rights issueAn offer of new shares at a set price to existing shareholders in a fixed ratio to what they already hold, so that their proportionate stake is not diluted when the company raises fresh capital.